Members’ Labs

Colleen Brophy, M.D., Joyce Cheung-Flynn, Ph.D. and Padmini Komalavilas, Ph.D. November 1, 2013 VA Medical Center, Nashville, TN Vanderbilt University Medical Center Department of Surgery Primary Research: Our lab is focused on the mechanisms of injury associated with harvest, preparation, and preservation of human saphenous vein grafts. We are also interested in calcium independent smooth…

Holger Gerhardt, Ph.D. October 1, 2013 Vascular Biology Laboratory, London Research Institute- Cancer Research UK, London, UK Vascular Patterning Laboratory, VRC, VIB, Leuven, Belgium From left to right: Veronique Gebala, Filipa Neto, Irene Aspalter, Li-Kun Phng, Fabio Stanchi, Russell Collins, Holger Gerhardt, Anne-Clemence Vion, Anan Ragab, Ilse Geudens, Pavel Nedvetsky, Thomas Mathivet, Martin Jones, Marly…

Alan Daugherty, Ph.D. September 1, 2013 SAHA Cardiovascular Research Center University of Kentucky From left to right: Kyung Sik Jung, Hong Lu,  Congqing Wu, Jing Liu, Venkat Subramanian, Frank Davis, Debra Rateri, Deborah Howatt, Alan Daugherty, Anju Balakrishnan, Jessica Moorleghen Primary Research: The primary focus of the laboratory is to delineate the role of the renin-angiotensin system on vascular pathology. In collaboration with the laboratory…

Alexander W. Clowes, M.D. July 1, 2013 Department of Surgery Center of Vascular Biology University of Washington From left to right: (back row) Shinsuke Kikuchi, Richard Kenagy, Andrew Burzo, Tony Grieff, Kevin Xiong, Lihua Chen; (front row) Julieann Marshall, Alexander Clowes, Lu Gao Primary Research: Over the last 30 years, we have been interested in how intimal…

Alan Dardik, M.D., Ph.D. June 1, 2013 Department of Surgery Vascular Biology and Therapeutics Program Yale University School of Medicine From left to right:  Go Kuwahara, Hualong Bai, Michael Hall, Kota Yamamoto, Daniel Wong, Alan Dardik, Roland Assi, Taylor Williams (back), Nirvana Sadaghianloo (front), Daniel Lu, Clinton Protack Primary Research: The Dardik laboratory studies the healing and function of blood vessels and synthetic blood vessel…

Masanori Aikawa, M.D., Ph.D. May 1, 2013 Yoshihiro Miwa Associate Chair and Founding Director Center for Interdisciplinary Cardiovascular Sciences (CICS) Brigham and Women’s Hospital Harvard Medical School Primary Research: In 2009, CICS was launched at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) in collaboration with Kowa Company Ltd, a Japanese corporation. The mission of CICS is to…

Volkhard Lindner, M.D., Ph.D. March 1, 2013 Maine Medical Center Research Institute The Lindner Lab Qiaozeng Wang, B.S. Volkhard Lindner, M.D., Ph.D. J. Patrizia Stohn, Ph.D. Nicole J. Perreault, B.S. Katrina Abramo, B.S. Grazina A. Mangoba, B.S., HTL (ASCP) Primary Research: Since the late 1990ies research efforts in our laboratory have been focused on the…

Calvin P. Vary, Ph.D. February 1, 2013 Maine Medical Center Research Institute The Calvin Vary Lab Eric Tweedie Barbara Conley MaryLynn Fitzsimmons Kira Young Calvin Vary, Ph.D. Primary Research: Endothelial cell Biology and hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) Visit the lab’s web site: www.mmcri.org/vary Recent Publications: Young K, Conley B, Romero D, Tweedie E, O’Neill C, Pinz I,…

Jeffrey S. Isenberg, M.D., M.P.H. December 1, 2012 Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine Department of Medicine and the Vascular Medicine Institute of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Jeff Isenberg, M.D. MPH Principal Investigator Enrico M. Novelli, MD Assistant Professor Natasha M. Rogers, MD, PhD Post Doctoral fellow Maryam Sharifi-Sanjani, PhD…

Sebastien Bonnet, Steeve Provencher, and Philippe Pibarot May 1, 2012 The Pulmonary Hypertension Research Group Laval University Institute of Cardiology and Pulmonology, Quebec City Sylvie Martin, Anne-Sophie Neyron, Vanessa Turcotte, Vincent Mainguy, Jolyane Meloche, Dr Steeve Provencher, Simon Malenfant, Dr Geneviève Dion, Dr Sébastien Bonnet, Jacinthe Poirier, Audrey Courboulin, Dr Sébastien Renard, Luce Bouchard, Ève…